Friday, January 25, 2008
procrastination sucks!!!
like i said before I am a huge procrastinator and lie you can tell that is exactly hat i have done, and now its 11:12 on a friday night and I am rushing to get these done!!! yikes! ok so as i have said before I am in a sorority, adpi, and i love it. i really do its just that i hate how we have all formed our little cliques and it bugs me for some reason. I love my friends but that doesn't mean that we all shouldn't branch out and talk to each other, after all we are sisters!!! We have had sring recruitment this week and it's been a little hectic I have to admit, but it will all be worth it at 7:30 in the mornig when we start bid day andd we have brand new sisters! I love watching the new girls go through their initiation process, it is amazing to see how everyone reacts differently! personally it was the most amazing thing i have ever experienced! I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about my sisters its just that I don't want to be that bitchy girl that everyone thinks is stuck up. I want every single one of my sisters to fee like they can come to me for anything, and tonight it just didn't feel that way at all.
Spoiled???
Ok so if anyone has ever heard me talk for longer than five minutes than I am sure that I have mentioned something about fashion or high quality design. well, one of the first girls i met here went shopping with me last semester sometime and iwas going on about how much i love dooney and burkes purses but now I am wanting something more bold and out there so I have been looking for a betsey johnson store here...Which there isn't one! and i nearly cried when i found out!!! but anyway the story is that while we were shopping I saw a purse that I had left back in Texas and I really miss it a lot, so I picked it up and was telling her the story about it. well, she decided to look at the price tag, and then she actually called me spoiled and told me that I was paying a rediculous amount for my bags. Not only did she insult me she kept going on aobut how spoiled i am and that I should be punished for desiring something so pricey. I don't think that wanting something for a special occassion like chistmas or a birthday that may be a little over the edge is asking for to much, and if whoever was buying it for me didn't agree they don't have to buy it. I just remembered this story and it put me in a vary bad mood so I had to ell you all about it. ohhh, and the thing that made me remeber the story was I saw her today, with a Kate Spade bag! (which are way more than the one I wanted) so she has no room to talk!!! ughhh....
Thursday, January 24, 2008
my life...
Somewhere along moving from california to moving to texas to moving here in memphis I have really grown up, and I didn't even realize that it was happening. I just seemed to wake up one day and be at college and honestly it seems like I was in middle school in california like two weeks ago. I never really understood the reason why parents and grandparents would always say your growing up so fast, but now I am starting to realize it. I am completly on my own, I cook, clean, do my laundry and go to school without anyone telling me that I have to. To me that is what growing up is all about, learning to do things in order to make your life better, even though at the moment it may not be your favorite thing to do. If someone told me two years ago that i didn't have to do any of these things i probablly wouldn't, but thats just a part of being a kid i guess. I can remeber so many times when i would beg my mom to let me stay home and skip school, but school was always my parents priority for me, and I am thankfull for that now.
wow...
wow, ok so I am in music appreciation and we have to listen to all kinds of music throughout the ages and I am trying to enjoy it but at the same time it all sounds the same to me. lol...but I guess thats a part of college, not really understanding why you need to know this stuff but you know you have to learn it. Ohh well, I have been listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony for about ten minutes now, this piece is one of my favorites. You all know which one it is, the one that goes dun dun dun dunnnnn, and its really dark and mysterious. well, I am really glad that our blogs are only 200 words because 750 is alot to write everyday, and as you can see i am a procrastinator!!!! I always wait to the last minute to do everything! I even waited until may to decide to come here! yeah, i know it was a big decision, but I had to ait until the last minute to decide, I guess it's just in my nature. well, tonight is our second night of spring recruitment for alpha delta pi, and i am so excited! I can't wait t ohave more sisters! I have a ton of them already but you can always have another person to call and meet up in tiger den or the library to study or go out preferably.
Monday, January 21, 2008
My Manifesto
Honestly before actually looking up the word “manifesto” I had always thought it meant a journey or goals, but then when I looked it up on www.dictionary.com, I suddenly saw that a manifesto was much more. I realized that a manifesto was usually a written declaration of principles and policy’s, often in a political sense. The first famous manifesto I thought of was our Declaration of Independence which explains the justifications for our separation of the British crown, and also states our countries “policies” in the way of our amendments. The Declaration of Independence is America’s written manifesto. The declaration of independence has never been questioned at any time whether or not it would last or succeed. It has never failed our country and had always been the backbone for our country. It lays out the principles in which our country was founded and now has many amendments stating our countries policies and laws.
Another famous manifesto is the Southern Manifesto, a document written by the congress members who opposed the Brown V. Board of Education Supreme Court case decision. They were opposed to racial integration in public places and the document was signed by one hundred and one politicians in several states including Tennessee and Texas, two states in which I have lived. Although, I have lived in the same states as the signers of The Southern Manifesto I personally do not agree with the document. The Southern Manifesto accused the Supreme Court of "clear abuse of judicial power"(www.thesaurus.com). It also promised to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution and to prevent the use of force in its implementation” (www.thesaurus.com).
These are just two of many famous manifestos, but they are manifestos in which our country had written with full intention of carrying out their statements, and I find it quite humorous how one can be so successful in the development of our country and the other never even thrived long enough to spark a change. The reason I choose these two documents to discuss famous manifestos was because I want my manifesto to be like The Declaration of Independence for our country, holding it up through the tough times, and never questioning its ability to withstand the test of time.
Before I get into my future journey I would like to give you a little background information about me. I am a freshman at the University of Memphis and where I will be in ten years is a complete mystery to me. I was born and raised in Hemet, California a small town just south of Los Angeles, next to Palm Springs. Most of my family still lives there to this day, and it is still considered home to me. When I was twelve years old I moved to Mount Pleasant, Texas with my sister. She had recently found out that she was pregnant and we were extremely close so I wanted to help her as much as possible. I continued to live with my sister helping her raise my niece Felicity, until I was seventeen. When I turned seventeen my parents moved to Texas and my world was turned upside down .I was use to taking care of myself by then, after all I took care of Felicity all the time I could handle myself. To my parents, especially my mom this was a hard concept, they missed a lot of maturing for me; from twelve to seventeen is a huge gap of growing up. So naturally we didn’t get along to much, in fact for a while my mom and I didn’t talk at all. This phase soon passed and now we get along, as well as any mother and daughter.
So how did I end up in Tennessee from California and Texas? Well, I came up during my senior year to visit my best friend, who is now my boyfriend. He moved to northern Arkansas and we would come to Memphis, and spend the day shopping and exploring the city and I immediately fell in love. I knew the first time I saw Memphis that I was meant to be here. So that day I went home and filled out my application to come to college here. Now that I am here I can honestly say that going away from home for college was the best thing I have ever done. I love it here, and I am so happy that I can wake up everyday and know that I made the right decision to come here.
About the future, I plan on attending the University of Memphis to at least get my bachelors and preferably my masters in nursing. Although my major was biology it is officially changing to nursing. I have always known that I wanted to be in health care for my profession, but until just a few weeks ago I had no idea what exactly I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to help people and enrich people’s lives and I feel that as a nurse practitioner that’s exactly what I would be doing. I would like to work in a hospital at first and then eventually in a private office working for a small group of doctors. I would take every chance I got to go tour the world, my goal is to visit every country I desire by the time I am thirty five. I believe I can do it. Eventually, when I retire I would like to move out of the United States and retire somewhere tropic like Belize or somewhere in the Caribbean at least, just something on a beach and relaxed.
I know that I am a girl and I am supposed to want a family and a huge wedding and everything, but honestly I do not know if I will ever get married. It is such a big commitment; it is for the rest of your life. I never understand girls that are twenty and worried about getting married, to me you haven’t even started your life and at twenty. I don’t expect to know who I am in two years; so how can I expect someone else to. Besides the standards I have for a man to reach before marriage could not possibly be achieved so early in life, I believe that before a couple should get married that they should be comfortable in their workplace and have a secure home in order for their family to dwell. Until I and my future husband have had a secure job for sometime, and own a house in which we can happily live I would not consider marriage as a possibility.
Now that I have fully understood the word manifesto, and have explained to the best of my knowledge what my manifesto would be, I can only hope for my manifesto to be completely fulfilled by the end of my career. Although my manifesto may not be a clear and dry cut as our Declaration of Independence, I still hope for my manifesto to be as secure, and sturdy as our country’s most famous document. I am not quite sure of how I will fulfill my manifesto, but in the end the journey is the best part of the ending result, and not always knowing every step of the way will only make it better.
Another famous manifesto is the Southern Manifesto, a document written by the congress members who opposed the Brown V. Board of Education Supreme Court case decision. They were opposed to racial integration in public places and the document was signed by one hundred and one politicians in several states including Tennessee and Texas, two states in which I have lived. Although, I have lived in the same states as the signers of The Southern Manifesto I personally do not agree with the document. The Southern Manifesto accused the Supreme Court of "clear abuse of judicial power"(www.thesaurus.com). It also promised to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution and to prevent the use of force in its implementation” (www.thesaurus.com).
These are just two of many famous manifestos, but they are manifestos in which our country had written with full intention of carrying out their statements, and I find it quite humorous how one can be so successful in the development of our country and the other never even thrived long enough to spark a change. The reason I choose these two documents to discuss famous manifestos was because I want my manifesto to be like The Declaration of Independence for our country, holding it up through the tough times, and never questioning its ability to withstand the test of time.
Before I get into my future journey I would like to give you a little background information about me. I am a freshman at the University of Memphis and where I will be in ten years is a complete mystery to me. I was born and raised in Hemet, California a small town just south of Los Angeles, next to Palm Springs. Most of my family still lives there to this day, and it is still considered home to me. When I was twelve years old I moved to Mount Pleasant, Texas with my sister. She had recently found out that she was pregnant and we were extremely close so I wanted to help her as much as possible. I continued to live with my sister helping her raise my niece Felicity, until I was seventeen. When I turned seventeen my parents moved to Texas and my world was turned upside down .I was use to taking care of myself by then, after all I took care of Felicity all the time I could handle myself. To my parents, especially my mom this was a hard concept, they missed a lot of maturing for me; from twelve to seventeen is a huge gap of growing up. So naturally we didn’t get along to much, in fact for a while my mom and I didn’t talk at all. This phase soon passed and now we get along, as well as any mother and daughter.
So how did I end up in Tennessee from California and Texas? Well, I came up during my senior year to visit my best friend, who is now my boyfriend. He moved to northern Arkansas and we would come to Memphis, and spend the day shopping and exploring the city and I immediately fell in love. I knew the first time I saw Memphis that I was meant to be here. So that day I went home and filled out my application to come to college here. Now that I am here I can honestly say that going away from home for college was the best thing I have ever done. I love it here, and I am so happy that I can wake up everyday and know that I made the right decision to come here.
About the future, I plan on attending the University of Memphis to at least get my bachelors and preferably my masters in nursing. Although my major was biology it is officially changing to nursing. I have always known that I wanted to be in health care for my profession, but until just a few weeks ago I had no idea what exactly I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to help people and enrich people’s lives and I feel that as a nurse practitioner that’s exactly what I would be doing. I would like to work in a hospital at first and then eventually in a private office working for a small group of doctors. I would take every chance I got to go tour the world, my goal is to visit every country I desire by the time I am thirty five. I believe I can do it. Eventually, when I retire I would like to move out of the United States and retire somewhere tropic like Belize or somewhere in the Caribbean at least, just something on a beach and relaxed.
I know that I am a girl and I am supposed to want a family and a huge wedding and everything, but honestly I do not know if I will ever get married. It is such a big commitment; it is for the rest of your life. I never understand girls that are twenty and worried about getting married, to me you haven’t even started your life and at twenty. I don’t expect to know who I am in two years; so how can I expect someone else to. Besides the standards I have for a man to reach before marriage could not possibly be achieved so early in life, I believe that before a couple should get married that they should be comfortable in their workplace and have a secure home in order for their family to dwell. Until I and my future husband have had a secure job for sometime, and own a house in which we can happily live I would not consider marriage as a possibility.
Now that I have fully understood the word manifesto, and have explained to the best of my knowledge what my manifesto would be, I can only hope for my manifesto to be completely fulfilled by the end of my career. Although my manifesto may not be a clear and dry cut as our Declaration of Independence, I still hope for my manifesto to be as secure, and sturdy as our country’s most famous document. I am not quite sure of how I will fulfill my manifesto, but in the end the journey is the best part of the ending result, and not always knowing every step of the way will only make it better.
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